.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 242 146
Rank change year-on-year -81 -96 -35
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 324 618 980
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.23% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.17% 5.70% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 300 445 922
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,050
25th Percentile £49,688 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,250
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.95% -3.66%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,267 10,841 11,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.90% 21.61% 25.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,821 6,488 9,603
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.09%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 26 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +9 112 £75,000 +7.14% 85
North of England -41 83 £55,000 - 87
South East -45 51 £57,500 +9.52% 109
North West -6 46 £55,000 -4.35% 44
Midlands -15 38 £65,000 +23.81% 74
East Midlands -16 26 £67,750 +29.05% 39
Yorkshire -42 26 £40,000 -20.00% 27
South West +5 22 £52,500 -23.64% 37
West Midlands +1 12 £57,500 +9.52% 33
East of England -19 12 £60,000 +20.00% 47
North East +2 11 £52,500 +16.67% 16
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.54%) Confluence
1 5 (1.54%) IIS
2 4 (1.23%) CMS
3 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Kentico
4 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 215 (66.36%) Azure
2 91 (28.09%) AWS
3 55 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (12.65%) Serverless
5 29 (8.95%) GitHub
6 20 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (5.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (5.25%) Power Platform
8 15 (4.63%) SaaS
9 14 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (4.32%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.32%) AWS Step Functions
9 14 (4.32%) Azure Functions
10 13 (4.01%) Amazon EventBridge
10 13 (4.01%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.78%) Azure App Service
11 9 (2.78%) GCP
12 8 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.23%) Internet
2 2 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (36.73%) SQL Server
2 44 (13.58%) MongoDB
3 41 (12.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (10.19%) NoSQL
5 26 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (4.94%) DynamoDB
8 14 (4.32%) MySQL
9 13 (4.01%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.47%) Power BI
11 6 (1.85%) NonStop SQL
11 6 (1.85%) Redis
11 6 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.93%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (18.52%) Git
2 12 (3.70%) JIRA
3 11 (3.40%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.85%) NUnit
5 5 (1.54%) GitLab
5 5 (1.54%) MSTest
6 4 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.93%) JMeter
7 3 (0.93%) Postman
7 3 (0.93%) Selenium
7 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.62%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.31%) Moq
9 1 (0.31%) NSubstitute
9 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 40 (12.35%) Finance
2 37 (11.42%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.94%) Law
4 13 (4.01%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.40%) Retail
6 9 (2.78%) Games
6 9 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.47%) Legal
8 6 (1.85%) Advertising
8 6 (1.85%) Front Office
9 5 (1.54%) Banking
10 3 (0.93%) Back Office
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
10 3 (0.93%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.31%) Automotive
12 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 240 (74.07%) Developer
2 128 (39.51%) .NET Developer
3 78 (24.07%) Senior
4 67 (20.68%) Software Developer
5 60 (18.52%) C# Developer
6 53 (16.36%) Senior Developer
7 43 (13.27%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (11.42%) Software Engineer
9 31 (9.57%) Lead
10 24 (7.41%) Senior .NET Developer
11 22 (6.79%) C# .NET Developer
11 22 (6.79%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 22 (6.79%) Senior C# Developer
12 20 (6.17%) .NET Software Engineer
13 18 (5.56%) C# Software Developer
14 17 (5.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (5.25%) React Developer
15 16 (4.94%) Lead Developer
16 13 (4.01%) Senior Software Developer
16 13 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (100.00%) .NET
2 129 (39.81%) ASP.NET
3 101 (31.17%) React
4 86 (26.54%) AngularJS
5 83 (25.62%) .NET Framework
6 70 (21.60%) RESTful
7 67 (20.68%) HTML
8 59 (18.21%) CSS
8 59 (18.21%) Entity Framework
9 56 (17.28%) ASP.NET MVC
10 51 (15.74%) ASP.NET Web API
11 48 (14.81%) Blazor
12 37 (11.42%) Vue
13 35 (10.80%) ASP.NET Core
13 35 (10.80%) Node.js
14 30 (9.26%) HTML5
15 22 (6.79%) REST
16 17 (5.25%) CSS3
17 15 (4.63%) LINQ
18 13 (4.01%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.85%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.85%) Digital TV
7 6 (1.85%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.23%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.93%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.93%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.62%) Derivative
11 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.93%) Windows
2 2 (0.62%) Linux
3 1 (0.31%) VMS
3 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (43.83%) Agile
2 128 (39.51%) Full-Stack Development
3 111 (34.26%) Microservices
4 107 (33.02%) CI/CD
5 88 (27.16%) DevOps
6 84 (25.93%) Software Engineering
7 78 (24.07%) MVC
8 49 (15.12%) Clean Code
9 48 (14.81%) Containerisation
10 46 (14.20%) Scrum
11 41 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (11.73%) TDD
14 33 (10.19%) SDLC
15 30 (9.26%) Mentoring
16 29 (8.95%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (8.02%) BDD
18 25 (7.72%) Kanban
18 25 (7.72%) OO
19 24 (7.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 285 (87.96%) C#
2 130 (40.12%) SQL
3 125 (38.58%) JavaScript
4 64 (19.75%) TypeScript
5 27 (8.33%) Python
6 11 (3.40%) Rust
7 9 (2.78%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.54%) Java
10 3 (0.93%) Bash
10 3 (0.93%) Bicep
10 3 (0.93%) Erlang
10 3 (0.93%) Go
10 3 (0.93%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.62%) XAML
12 1 (0.31%) C++
12 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (10.80%) Degree
2 13 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.40%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.40%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (3.09%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.94%) QA
2 9 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.16%) WCAG
4 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 71 (21.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.49%) Terraform
3 2 (0.62%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 101 (31.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.85%) Facebook
2 6 (1.85%) YouTube
3 4 (1.23%) Dynatrace
4 3 (0.93%) Databricks
4 3 (0.93%) Google
5 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.62%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle
6 1 (0.31%) Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) IBM
6 1 (0.31%) IONA
6 1 (0.31%) Okta
6 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow